Pluggers by Rick McKee for April 23, 2022

Save the planet from tiny slivers of soap.

Never thought about doing that. I’ll try it next time i need a new bar of soap.

Done this all my life. My parents were children of the Depression and lived through the rationing of WWII. Honestly, I thought everybody did it.

Guess that makes me a Plugger then …

Never tried that ! !

Guilty.

Over the years, I’m sure I’ve saved as much as …. 40c.

Don’t waste anything….

It goes into the bag to be a scrubber.

You’re a plugger if you still use bar soap instead of some kind of liquid in a fancy pump.

A soap sized terrycloth bag with a drawstring closure does the trick.

My mom was good at that. NOTHING was wasted in our house. My parents were also Depression Era young adults.

I prefer liquid hand pump soaps. Much more sanitary.

Yep, do that all the time.

Waste not … Want not :-)

I buy bar soap that’s hollow in the center. That way you don’t have any of those slivers left over.

When I was a kid in the mid 50’s, my parents ran a small motel. All of the leftover little bars of soap were collected from the rooms, ground up in a meat grinder, and turned into big bars for the family to use.

doesn’t everyone?

Wish this would work with solid deodorants.

I used to do that, but now can’t think of the last time I used a bar of soap. Mrs finally threw away bar bar of Lava I had because I seldom used it.

What else are you to do with the sliver, eat it?

Mom taught us that.

I do that too!

My Grandmother did, too. Oh, and my Great Grandmother made her own lye soap in a big black iron pot – made with pig lard. Wow !

I’ve become much more discerning. I make sure the two are the same color.

That is me all right, I am certainly a Plugger!

Doesn’t everyone do that?

Gross.

We save the slivers, melt them down and pour into a mold, viola new bar. So waste not want not eh?

I’ll have to try that. All my old slivers wind up piled up on the soup depression on the side of the bathroom sink.

You’re probably a plugger if you use bar soap

I do this.

I do that.

Just get both of them damp and rub them together, then give them a nice squeeze.

You’re a plugger if you still use bar soap.

Like Dani Rice – child of children of the Depression and have also done this all my life. Husband is a similar child, but lately it annoys the heck out of him when I do this – he says it just falls apart, so I just keep the tiny pieces on the side and use them as they are. (For awhile early in the pandemic I was using the liquid with soap mixed into it that forms under the soap in the soap dish to conserve soap use.)